So there’s some major MMA action this weekend but it’s all on Friday. At the same time there’s a bit of MMA related action taking place on Saturday. So let’s delve into some minor Friday and all the Saturday action:
RFA 14 – Manzanares vs. Maranhão
Resurrection Fighting Alliance holds an event at the Cheyenne Ice & Events Center in Cheyenne, Wyoming April 11 broadcast on AXS TV:
Flyweight Title Bout – Matt Manzanares vs. Junior Maranhão
Featherweight Contender – Mark Dickman vs. Raoni Barcelos
Flyweight Contender Bout – Tyler Voth vs. Jeimeson Saudino
170 – Alan Jouban, 7-2 vs. Amando Montoya Jr, 8-3
145 – Tyler Toner, 15-6-1 vs. Daniel Aguiar, 9-3
120 – Jocelyn Jones-Lybarger, 2-1 vs. Rosa Acevedo, 1-0
Preliminary Card:
135 – Scott Ingram, 1-0 vs. Joshua Smith, 0-0
Amateur Card:
185 – Sonny Yohn, 3-0 vs. Enrique Torres, 13-2-1
145 – Zach Hare, 7-4 vs. Andrew Kauppila, 12-4
145 – Leandro Arias, 2-0 vs. Anthony Cox, 3-3
170 – Ralph Carabajal, 2-1 vs. Anthony Adams, 2-1
125 – Joe Guerrero, 2-1 vs. George Martinez, 1-0
Glory 15: Istanbul
Glory holds an event at the Ulker Sports Arena in Istanbul, Turkey on April 12 broadcast on Spike to find their light heavyweight champion:
Light Heavyweight Championship Tournament Final TBD vs. TBD
Lightweight Robin van Roosmalen vs. Marat Grigorian
Light Heavyweight Danyo Ilunga vs. Andrei Stoica
Light Heavyweight Semi Final Tyrone Spong vs. Saulo Cavalari
Light Heavyweight Semi Final Gökhan Saki vs. Nathan Corbett
Heavyweight Jhonata Diniz vs. Hesdy Gerges
Light Heavyweight Randy Blake vs. Mourad Bouzidi
Light Heavyweight Filip Verlinden vs. Israel Adesanya
Welterweight Atakan Arslan vs. Jonatan Oliveira
Lightweight Niclas Larsen vs. Steve Moxon
Featherweight Yodkhunpon Sitmonchai vs. Raz Sarkisjan
K-1 The Battle for Spain
Longtime kickboxing K-1 holds an event in Mallorca, Spain on April 12 with international talent to be broadcast on their website at k-1.tv:
70kg: Maximo Suarez (Spain) VS Elam Negor (Spain)
86kg: Denis Marjanivic (Serbia) VS Moises Ruibal (Spain)
+100kg: George Collin (Holland) VS Mario Jagatic (Croatia)
63kg: Cristian Barrionueveo (Spain) VS Zakaria Zougarry
70kg: Miodrag Olar (Romania) VS Alejandro Rodriguex (Spain)
95kg: Adam Hart (England) VS Jose IIaneras (Spain)
CAGE WARRIORS 67
Cage Warriors holds an event at The LC in Swansea, Wales on April 12 broadcast on channel Fight Now TV and online at MMAjunkie.com:
Brett Johns VS James Brum
Sean Carter VS Mario Saeed
Shaj Haque VS Martin McDonough
Jamie Pritchard VS Phil Raeburn
Gemma Hewitt VS Agnieszka Niedzwiedz
Simas Norkus VS Stu Tyrie
Mark Handley VS Paul Rogers
Are you going to watch any of the events taking place this weekend on the more minor cards? Feel free to leave a comment and let us know.